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As a producer, you're there from the inception of the concept to the delivery of it. It just takes so much energy.

The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.

I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing the artists and making them feel good. I can see now that in some cases, that's what you have to do because that's the only way you're going to get them to produce.

You have to fall in love with the production, and then there's a certain mind-set that you develop where it does stay fresh in your mind.

You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years.

I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.